Vanity Fair columnist and famed literary nepo baby Molly Jong-Fast compared immensely popular Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to murder Mongol warlord Ghengis Khan in a recent piece.
The column, which ran on Thursday, branded DeSantis just ‘as dangerous to democracy’ as former President Donald Trump. It was titled, ‘Ron DeSantis shouldn’t be covered like just another Republican.’
Jong-Fast describes DeSantis as a threat just as potent as Trump, though for somewhat different reasons.
While DeSantis is ‘like Shakespeare compared to the former president,’ he is ‘the Ghengis Khan of social issues.’
Molly Jong Fast, daughter of popular novelist Erica Jong, became a political pundit during the Trump years and is now sounding the alarm on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
DeSantis, who has yet to join the presidential primary competition, established several new education-funding policy measures in Florida recently that bar the teaching of Critical Race Theory and defund Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives
Trump’s campaign and time in office severely damaged and endangered Democracy, according to Jong-Fast and her pundit-class peers. But anyone who thought the panicky left-wing writing and podcasting would stop just because DeSantis is ‘slightly less disgusting’ and ‘a good bit more coherent’ than Trump, is in for a rude awakening.
No, DeSantis too, should not under any circumstances be normalized, wrote Jong-Fast.
‘To call DeSantis a culture warrior dangerously understates what the man is capable of. He is the Genghis Khan of social issues, using every opportunity to target and demonize groups that have already been targeted and demonized throughout history,’ she wrote.
‘Marginalizing vulnerable groups is a classic authoritarian trope, which DeSantis seems to have down pat.’
Despite a previous career as a Bohemian-chic Upper East Side daughter of successful literary parents, Jong-Fast and her army of 1million strong Twitter followers became the little pundit who could during the Trump years.
Out of her oft-written about multi-million dollar Upper East Side apartment, Jong-Fast hosts the constant stream of resistance Twitter philosophers, who frequently target conservatives.
As the presidential primary trail begins to heat up, with an announcement from former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley earlier this week – the first to officially toss her hat in the ring since Trump, Jong-Fast is not so subtly suggesting that it’s time to give DeSantis the ole’ Trump treatment.
Specifically, Jong-Fast points to DeSantis’ authoritative (she writes ‘authoritarian’) slap-down of Critical Race Theory being taught in Florida schools as evidence of his dangerous ways.
Last month, DeSantis announced he would cut funding to all CRT and DEI programs at state colleges, because education should be ‘grounded in actual history’ and the ‘actual philosophy that has shaped western civilization,’ he said at the time.
This policy, she writes, amounts to a ‘right-wing assault on education in Florida’ all in service of the governor’s ‘brand.’
She is further turned off by the fact that DeSantis does not chase after the approval of the ‘free press,’ which he knows he will never gain.
Ghengis Khan was a famously brutal Mongol Emperor. He launched a series of successful military campaigns to conquer parts of China and Central Asia. He is believed to be responsible for the deaths of some 40million people. Jong Fast compared Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to him
In turn, Jong-Fast is baffled that her fellow mainstream writers and analysts would do anything but malign his policies and behaviors.
‘That same free press that normalizes DeSantis? DeSantis seems to have little use for it – and even wants to make it easier to successfully sue the news organizations, potentially chilling the press,’ she wrote.
DeSantis has not yet officially entered the pool of potential 2024 GOP candidates for president. That fact, however, has not stopped Jong Fast from promising her readers an equally hysterical round of forthcoming coverage ahead of 2024.
To finish her piece, she declared dramatically: ‘We need to be unflinching in our presidential campaign coverage, while we’re still allowed to cover them.’
SOURCE: dailymail.co.uk
